nothoo.com » Sports http://blog.nothoo.com meritorious marginalia Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:28:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Wiffle Ball http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/10/13/wiffle-ball/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/10/13/wiffle-ball/#comments Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:29:53 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2006/10/13/wiffle-ball/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Wiffle Ball. A plastic ball with oblong holes cut out of 1/2 + a narrow yellow plastic bat = fun.

Way back when, in high school, a friend of mine and I used to play at least 3 times a week. We played on some tennis courts near his house. We played a version where there was no base running (there were after all only 2 of us). The magnitude of the hit, measured in distance and deliniated by various landmarks on the tennis courts, determined the type of hit. The further the more bases. Over the fence was a home run. We would play standard 3 strikes 3 outs 9 innings. We each were a team (me the Atlanta Braves, he the Detroit Tigers). We would have to establish a line-up and would have to bat the handedness of each player. This was back in the late 80s early 90s so names such as Cecil Fielder, Travis Fryman, Alan Trammell, Dave Justice, Ron Gant, and Dale Murphy were the players that were batting for us, through us. We are both righties but we good really good at switch hitting. In fact the longest home run either of us ever hit was by me and it was left-handed. I hit it into the pond that was about 20 feet beyond the fence down the “right-field” line of the tennis court. We also kept track of win loss records. Of course we also played Stratomatic baseball!

I really miss playing wiffle ball and need to find someone to play it with me again…. I bet I will be extremely sore if I do play.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/06/25/surviving-the-extremes/feed/ 0 Geez http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/02/03/geez/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/02/03/geez/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:12:10 +0000 jeff /?p=126 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I know that I am late to the game with this one, but it is pretty cool. Picture yourself a basketball player, playing a team you have not beaten in 10 years, your opponent makes a free-throw to take a 1-point lead, then misses the second. There is 0.6 seconds left, what do you do? Heave it 87 feet and make the shot of course. Then the next day what do you do? Make the shot again on a live TV news program of course. Meet Jordan Snipes of Guilford College.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/02/03/geez/feed/ 0 NFL Rule http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/01/08/nfl-rule/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/01/08/nfl-rule/#comments Sat, 08 Jan 2005 20:44:26 +0000 jeff /?p=112 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I thought I new all of the NFL rules having watched quite a few games in my life, but tonight I learned a new one. The Fair Catch Kick rule. Very interesting. The implication here is that a team could call a fair catch with no time left in the half or game. Upon successfull completion of the fair catch the team can then choose to attempt a field goal or snap the ball. So in essence the half (or game) is continued with no time left. I have never actually seen this happen though.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/01/08/nfl-rule/feed/ 0 Orange Bowl http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/01/04/orange-bowl/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/01/04/orange-bowl/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2005 20:02:29 +0000 jeff /?p=108 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I kind of like and respect Bob Stoops but I
really do loathe the
Big 12 and Oklahoma in particular, so the current Orange Bowl score USC
35 – OU 10 is very pleasing. I am so sick of hearing about OU. go USC!

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/01/04/orange-bowl/feed/ 0 Worst Edit Ever http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/01/03/worst-edit-ever/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/01/03/worst-edit-ever/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2005 20:24:00 +0000 jeff /?p=105 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> So I am watching the stupendously awful TV halftime show during
the Sugar Bowl. ABC decides to do a human interest story about a
Virgina Tech player whose brother is deployed in Iraq. They go live to
the brother in Iraq who is sitting in a room with 10 or so other
military personnel. The commentator chats with the brother. Then he
tells him to tell the others to give a wave and a hello to their loved
ones back home. They then cut to the VT player whose brother was being
interviewed, he is on the sideline spitting a huge amount of liquid out
of his mouth. Beautiful. Absolutely brilliant.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/01/03/worst-edit-ever/feed/ 0 Anoying Sideline Reporters http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/01/03/anoying-sideline-reporters/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/01/03/anoying-sideline-reporters/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2005 20:16:28 +0000 jeff /?p=104 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Why do the TV networks insist on having these annoying sideline
reporters at football games? They rarely, if ever, provide any useful
information. They also seem to be about 99.99% female. I view this as a
misguided attempt at trying to include women into the sports TV genre.
If they really want to do this let more women be announcers, I am sure
they are just as good as the men. Hell, most of the announcers are
idiots so they could ceratinly do better. Is it that hard to get
someone competent in these jobs?

And oh yeah, the BCS is idiotic.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2005/01/03/anoying-sideline-reporters/feed/ 0 Kasparov Chickens Ou http://blog.nothoo.com/2003/02/10/kasparov-chickens-ou/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2003/02/10/kasparov-chickens-ou/#comments Mon, 10 Feb 2003 18:12:00 +0000 jeff /?p=29 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Kasparov deciding to draw against Deep Junior, the chess playing computer, rather than trying to win and risk losing, seems quite lame to me. According to the article he was even booed by the audience. Who knew that chess audiences were so passionate?

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